Beneath this, at its base, are 2 short, lateral processes or filaments, to the 
side of each of which is attached a single, sessile, 2-lobed, orange-yellow 
anther ; its lobes rather unequal. Pollen yellow-brown, waxy. Stigma 
much smaller than the lobe above described, peltate, rounded, glabrous, 
pale yellow. 
This, the finest, without exception, of the known species 
belonging to that most singular and beautiful genus, Cypri- 
pedium, is a native of the same country as the C. venustum, 
namely Nepaul, and has many points in common with that 
species, among which the distichous mode of growth, and suc- 
culent nature of its leaves, are not the least remarkable. 
The truly excellent representation of this plant in the splen- 
did Collectanea Botanica of Mr LiNviEy, represents the 
leaves of C. insigne as much shorter than were those of my 
soo and differing also by being decidedly marked with 
Phe individual from which Mr LinpLEy’s figure and de- 
scription were taken, _Was, as well as my own, communicated 
by Mr SHEPHERD, from the Liverpool Botanic Garden, 
hla it was introduced from that of Calcutta, i in the year 
It flowers in the month of November, and the blossoms 
continue for a great length of time in perfection. 
Fig. 1. Under side of the Column of Fructification. Fig. 2. Upper view of 
the same. Fig. 3, Stamen, with its 2-celled Anther.—AU more or less 
magnified. 
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